As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
when i say that a significant part of the erosion of press freedom in the US is just preemptive surrender by the legacy political press themselves:
"with no record on which to rely (the challenges had only just been filed in the D.C. Circuit), Roberts’s sources for his 'facts' are a combination of the applications themselves and outside news reports"
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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My commentary for @arkansasadvocate.com this week:
Trump threatens to make a mockery of presidential libraries and records law arkansasadvocate.com/2026/04/19/t...
I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns comes to Arkansas to lobby against nutball decision to disaffiliate state public TV from PBS; says network is "Declaration of Independence applied to communication. It's the thing that binds us all together."
#arpx #arleg
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First big Democrat to declare war on this piece of shit court gets my hearty endorsement
An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets
My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne
The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read
Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.
And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.
You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.
Guns, Title IX infractions, a scandalous volleyball coach? It was a tough week for the Little Rock School District. Good thing LRSD is tough, too.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine. The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition. These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine. The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.
The US Catholic Bishops are not having it.
the United States’ duty to safeguard tax return information under 26 U.S.C. § 6103 and the Privacy Act. The case remains in its early stages. Good cause exists to grant an extension in this matter while the Parties engage in discussions designed to resolve this matter and to avoid protracted litigation. This limited pause will neither prejudice the Parties nor delay ultimate resolution. Rather, the extension will promote judicial economy and allow the Parties to explore avenues that could narrow or resolve the issues efficiently. II. Argument A. Good Cause Supports a 90-day Extension. Courts routinely grant extensions motions where, as here, an extension serves the interests of justice and efficiency without harming any party. The Parties are engaging in discussions and need time to work through how to ensure those discussions can take place productively to avoid protracted litigation. This brief period will allow the Parties to initiate and structure those discussions in a manner that best serves the interests of all Parties and the Court
BREAKING: IRS confirms it's negotiating with Trump family to pay a "settlement" in the wildly defective lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns.
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No surprise to me that @colorado.gov is endorsing a tech bro. Polis is the *worst* "Democratic" governor in the country, and if this is what "big tent" means, we should take it down. He is not very smart, has no principles or policy agendas of his own, and follows wherever money leads him.
In Gaza, the IDF has spent the months since the ceasefire completing the demolition of all urban areas behind the Yellow Line (and some a little beyond it)
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Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:
- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter
Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
The DC-based NOTUS politics news website is to expand into sports to fill a void left by the Washington Post and will rebrand as The Star, which was the name of a Washington newspaper that traced its roots back to 1852 and went bankrupt in 1981. www.notus.org/about-us/jobs
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.
Nation cuts off nose to spite face.
Drop in immigrant tax filings may cost government billions as IRS shares data with ICE www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
While carrying out public business for his father-in-law, Jared Kushner "has continued to pursue his private interests and declined to disclose any information about them," Andrea Bernstein writes:
Gruenert & Whitaker’s observation that “the culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate” is one I think about a lot. It has proven remarkably prescient for the Republican Party (and more broadly, too).
BREAKING: Israel carries out two air strikes on the Qasmiyeh Bridge in southern Lebanon, the last bridge linking Tyre and Sidon, destroying it completely, according to Lebanese media.
Anyone in particular? Oh.
"The company founded and formerly run by Energy Secretary Chris Wright paid no federal corporate income taxes last year, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS."
"At least 88 of the largest corporations in America paid no federal corporate income taxes in their most recent fiscal year despite enjoying substantial pretax profits in the U.S."
Cool. Cool cool cool.
"After firing at least 20,000 workers last year, employees with no professional tax experience are being assigned to phone service lines and processing tax returns. (. . .)phone line service goals have been lowered to 70 percent and nearly one in ten taxpayer assistance centers have been closed."
Made it onto PBS!
